Frances and Emily enter the Charlotte Airport Rental Car Center. It’s a large, clean, open space, quite empty…
E. J. Roller
As always, it was a pleasure to collaborate with the incomparable, Sky Macklay, on a short opera–the second in…
This spring, at Opera on Tap’s “Her Kind” Cabaret and at American Opera Projects’ “First Glimpse” concert, Frances Pollock…
As our graduate thesis, Mike von der Nahmer and I wrote a first draft of a musical/opera based on…
Jennifer Goode Cooper performed “Only Job,” an aria from the opera, Transference, (libretto by Emily Roller and Frances Pollock,…
Composer, Peter Hodgson, lyricist, Kathleen Wrinn, and I completed a highly productive residency in the beautiful Catskills, where we…
“I’m just trying to take care of my own.” It’s a notion that, on the surface, makes sense. If…
Mrs. Brown had a responsibility, a big one. She was guardian of the most precious resource the world had…
When I went to the MVA (Maryland’s DMV) in Baltimore to change over my Missouri driver license, the person…
How can a “good” person—one who cares about children—support a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion? I…